WO2018195563A2 - Fermeture à glissière à fermeture automatique ou à verrouillage - Google Patents

Fermeture à glissière à fermeture automatique ou à verrouillage Download PDF

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WO2018195563A2
WO2018195563A2 PCT/US2018/038630 US2018038630W WO2018195563A2 WO 2018195563 A2 WO2018195563 A2 WO 2018195563A2 US 2018038630 W US2018038630 W US 2018038630W WO 2018195563 A2 WO2018195563 A2 WO 2018195563A2
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zipper
lock
locking device
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lock portion
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Rafael Rodriguez
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Rafael Rodriguez
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B19/00—Slide fasteners
    • A44B19/24—Details
    • A44B19/26—Sliders
    • A44B19/30—Sliders with means for locking in position
    • A44B19/301—Sliders with means for locking in position at the end of their upward travel with any suitable device, e.g. pull member combined with a press-button, a hook, a key-operated lock
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45C—PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C13/00—Details; Accessories
    • A45C13/10—Arrangement of fasteners
    • A45C13/1023—Arrangement of fasteners with elongated profiles fastened by sliders
    • A45C13/103—Arrangement of zip-fasteners
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45C—PURSES; LUGGAGE; HAND CARRIED BAGS
    • A45C13/00—Details; Accessories
    • A45C13/18—Devices to prevent theft or loss of purses, luggage or hand carried bags
    • A45C13/24—Devices for sound-producing, piercing, gas-discharging, or the like
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/00174—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys
    • G07C9/00563—Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys using personal physical data of the operator, e.g. finger prints, retinal images, voicepatterns
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
    • G08B13/02—Mechanical actuation
    • G08B13/14—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles
    • G08B13/1427—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles with transmitter-receiver for distance detection
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
    • H04W4/02—Services making use of location information
    • H04W4/023—Services making use of location information using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
    • H04W4/02—Services making use of location information
    • H04W4/029—Location-based management or tracking services
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
    • H04W4/80—Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
    • G08B13/02—Mechanical actuation
    • G08B13/14—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles
    • G08B13/1445—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles with detection of interference with a cable tethering an article, e.g. alarm activated by detecting detachment of article, breaking or stretching of cable
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
    • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
    • G08B21/0269—System arrangements wherein the object is to detect the exact location of child or item using a navigation satellite system, e.g. GPS
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B21/00—Alarms responsive to a single specified undesired or abnormal condition and not otherwise provided for
    • G08B21/02—Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
    • G08B21/0202—Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child
    • G08B21/0277—Communication between units on a local network, e.g. Bluetooth, piconet, zigbee, Wireless Personal Area Networks [WPAN]

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  • the present invention relates to enclosures and, more particularly, to a zipper that may be a self-closing or locking zipper.
  • luggage locks are usually added secure two zipper ends together. These locks can include combination locks, keyed locks or other similar designs. These locks, however, pose several issues. First, the locks may get lost, as they may be completely removed from the luggage. Moreover, keys for these locks may get lost, especially during travel, or combinations may be forgotten. Also, the locks dangle off the bags both by the extension of the zipper pull length and the length of the lock itself. This may pose a catch point for the bags to get caught during transport and transfer to and from an aircraft, for example. Should the lock get caught, at best the lock may break, however, such a situation could damage the luggage itself, causing tears and exposing the luggage contents.
  • Figure 1 shows a front view of a zipper-lock mechanism according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention
  • Figure 2 shows a side view of the zipper-lock mechanism of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 3 shows a detailed top view of the zipper-lock mechanism taken about circle III of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 4 shows a detailed side view of the zipper-lock mechanism taken along circle IV of Figure 2;
  • Figure 5 shows a perspective view of the zipper-lock mechanism of Figure 1 in an open state;
  • Figure 6 shows a top view of the zipper-lock mechanism of Figure 1 in an open state
  • Figure 7 shows a side view of the zipper-lock mechanism of Figure 1 in an open state
  • Figure 8 shows a perspective view of the lock side of the zipper-lock mechanism of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 9 shows a top view of the lock side of Figure 8.
  • Figure 10 shows a side view of the lock side of Figure 8.
  • Figure 1 1 shows a top view of the zipper side of the zipper-lock mechanism of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 12 shows a side view of the zipper side of Figure 1 1 ;
  • Figure 13 shows a perspective view of the zipper side of Figure 1 1 .
  • a commercial implementation in accordance with the spirit and teachings of the present invention may be configured according to the needs of the particular application, whereby any aspect(s), feature(s), function(s), result(s), component(s), approach(es), or step(s) of the teachings related to any described embodiment of the present invention may be suitably omitted, included, adapted, mixed and matched, or improved and/or optimized by those skilled in the art, using their average skills and known techniques, to- achieve the desired implementation that addresses the needs of the particular application.
  • an embodiment of the present invention provides a zipper locking device, where the zipper locking device can include a lock portion and a pull tab portion.
  • the zipper latch mechanism of the pull tab portion also referred to as the zipper crown, may fit into the lock portion, creating a locked zipper.
  • the zipper locking device may be opened via a combination and/or a key, or the like.
  • the zipper locking device can include a geo-location feature where the bag on which the zipper locking device is attached may be tracked.
  • the zipper locking device may further include an alarm feature, where, when the zipper locking device is separated from the user by a pre-defined distance, an alarm may alert the user.
  • the zipper locking device may be self-closing.
  • a zipper closure 10 may be used to connect a first side 12 and a second side 14 of an object, such as a bag, luggage, handbag, purse, backpack or the like.
  • the zipper closure 10 can include zipper teeth 16 that may come together or be separated as a zipper pull 18 or a lock member 20 is moved along the zipper teeth 16 through openings 18B in the zipper pull 18.
  • the mechanism of zipper teeth closure and opening may be similar to those processes known in the art.
  • a single zipper closure 10 may be closed by two zipper pulls that meet when the bag is closed.
  • one of the zipper pulls may be the lock member 20 having an opening 20A, where a crown 18A of the other of the zipper pulls fits into the opening 20A to securely hold the two together.
  • the lock can be formed to be opened and closed by various mechanisms. For example, once locked, the lock may be opened by a wireless device, such as a wireless connected mobile phone, a combination lock 24, a keyed lock 22, a biometric scan, such as a fingerprint, or the like.
  • the lock itself may be formed in various types, as may be known in the art.
  • the zipper pulls may be magnetized to help secure the ends together.
  • the lock portion 20 can include a wireless transmitter 34, such as a Bluetooth® transmitter.
  • the lock portion 20 may be linked to a user's smart phone to provide the user of lock status, geo-location data obtained by a GPS chip 32, or the like.
  • the lock portion 20 can include a speaker 36 for sounding an alert.
  • the alert may also be provided to the user's smart phone via the transmitter 34.
  • the lock portion 20 may be powered by a battery (not shown) that may be charged via a port (not shown), as may be known in the art.
  • a port may be provided on the lock portion 20 to attach a tether to another device, to the user, or the like, so that when the tether is disconnected, the alarm may sound.
  • the speaker 36 may also act as a microphone. In other embodiments, a separate microphone may be provided. The microphone may receive voice input for controlling the lock. In some embodiments, the lock may be set with a voice recognition protocol as may be known in the art, to permit the user to voice activate and deactivate the lock.
  • the lock portion 20 and the zipper pull 18 may be formed during manufacture of the zipper on the bag, luggage, or the like.
  • the lock portion 20 may be designed to attach to an existing zipper pull in order to retro-fit the system of the present invention onto a conventional bag, without requiring a permanent modification thereof.
  • the retro-fit design may include a receptacle at the bottom of the lock portion 20 for attachment to a zipper, zipper crown, or the like.
  • the back side of the lock portion 20 may include one or more loops or openings for stitching the lock directly onto a bag so that the zipper crown of an existing zipper may fit therein.
  • the zipper may be a self-closing / self-opening zipper, where the zipper can automatically close with the touch of a button, for example.
  • the zipper may automatically close after a given period of time of inactivity of the bag, or if the bag moves outside a predetermined distance away from a user.
  • the zipper may self-close and may remain closed until the user sends a signal to the bag to release the zipper. This feature may be both a convenience and a security feature for the bag.
  • the zipper may have a combination lock that may also be opened with a key, thus making the lock TSA-approved.
  • the zipper-lock may be used on any device that uses a zipper, such as luggage, duffel bags, equipment bags, brief cases, laptop bags, and the like.
  • the lock side may be stationary, where the zipper pull side moves toward the lock side. In other embodiments, both the lock side and the zipper pull side may move along the zipper teeth to permit the connection of the zipper pull side with the lock side at any location along the zipper teeth.

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un dispositif de verrouillage de fermeture à glissière, le dispositif de verrouillage de fermeture à glissière pouvant comprendre une partie de verrouillage et une partie languette à tirer. Le mécanisme formant verrou de fermeture à glissière de la partie languette à tirer peut s'ajuster dans la partie de verrouillage, créant une fermeture à glissière verrouillée. Le dispositif de verrouillage de fermeture à glissière peut être ouvert par l'intermédiaire d'un code et/ou d'une clé. Le dispositif de verrouillage de fermeture à glissière peut comprendre une fonction de géolocalisation permettant de suivre le sac sur lequel le dispositif de verrouillage de fermeture à glissière est fixé. Le dispositif de verrouillage de fermeture à glissière peut en outre comprendre une fonction d'alarme grâce à laquelle, lorsque le dispositif de verrouillage de fermeture à glissière est séparé de l'utilisateur par une distance prédéfinie, une alarme peut alerter l'utilisateur. Dans certains modes de réalisation, le dispositif de verrouillage de fermeture à glissière peut être à fermeture automatique.
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